The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-15

ing hundreds of thousands yea, millions, of
Gods creatures feel that this life is horrid mis-
take or that, worse than that it is the joke of
some most hateful fieud rather than the love of
an all-wse and ALLOWING Father.
1T is not for nothing that He who came save
the souls of men did much to minister TO the
relief of their bodily wants. He healed all their
diseases; He raised their dead even to life; He
cured their distempers; He bore all their sorrows
he felt compassion for the multitude lest they
should faint by the wayside. He miraculously I
supplemented the laws of nature, and fed them
with miraculous loaves and fishes of the wilder
ness He did all this, because. doing it. He knew
full we'll that the bodies of men well as their
souls are the creatures of God, and that their
bodies and that the capacity of those bodies are
but signs and symbols of the spiritual things
within, even as all the vast universe of God is
but His garment is but the sign and symbol and
the thin veil that surrounds him through the
riffs in which catch On every hand glmpSes
of God and of heaven.
but the heavens are telling the glory of God
There is greater heaven here, vaster and more
wondrous than the universe, in the intelligent
mind and heart in the least of Gods creatures
All the most wondrous, multitudnous, multi
farious, beauty and glory is not equal to the
dignity and the sanctity of the mind and the
heart of the least of Gods children; and there
fore is it that it is with sacramental sense and
value that Christ tells that the very peril of
souls must look after the bodies of theselit-
tie ones; we must feed the hungry we must comfort
and as far as can heal the sick: must
provide shelter for the homeless: must look
after the weak, the blind the halt and the in
sane. Is all this mistake? No; it is a part Of
true religion. because 1t Is the sign and the SYM
boil of spiritual things. 1t is because of the
proper of the bodies of men. of the proper
feeding of their bodies, of the proper shetering
of them, that make it possible for human
nature TO expand beautiful flower under the
influence of genial warmth and refreshing
breezes and showers and so lilies and flowers of
every virtue may the more readily expand if the
mind and the heart OF the child able to look
up and to feel that God the Father has not been
entirely unmindful of the wants of tine child.
"This is of apostle of Christ. This
is true religion. We visit the widow and the
fatherless in affection. So it Is necessarily a
part of true religion to insist on what is essen
TALLY the equality of man regardless of the
comparatively trjfiing difference in their gifts
and requirements. This is economy, then-po-
litical economy. social economy. the teaching
and the reducing of which to practice is the
core and essence or this new crusade. All men,
Inaenable, always, everywhere, have common
right to all the general bouuties of nature; a<o
this is in perfect and beautiful keeping
with the other law of labor that
every month has two hands with which to
feed itself, necessary corrolary of which is
that these hands must have equal direct or indi-
rect access to the general bounties of nature out
of which to make living. That is the whole of
the doctrine of this new crusade in nutshell,
air, and the waters. and the fishes, and the mines
burrowed in the bowels of the earth, all these
things that were made by the Creator through
the beautiful processes of nature belong equally
to the human family, to the community, to the
people, to the children of God. The law of
labor requires that these natural materials shall
be brought into such relations with men tnat
they shall afford to them food, raiment, shelter:
for the erection of works not merely of utility
but of ornament, that out of these materials the
children of men shall have equal indispensable
rights to pluck, to catch at them in order not
merely to tsatisfy the brute necessities of the
animal body or barely enough to keep it from
the inclemency of the blast, but to go adding
to all those to make the very shelter itself
thing of beauty, to make the home kind of
temple in which there may be family altar; to
erect great public works that shall serve
not merely purposes of utility, but shall edu-
cate the eye and the fancy, and shall gladden.
the habitatons of during their
brief temporal abode; to add something
serve the body from the inclemency of the
atmosphere; to make even the raiment of man
work of art; to give charm, and grace, and
dignity even to the mere feeling of the animal.
All men then have this right and it is part of
the gospel of this crusade that while we
may make much allowance for the ignorance in
which these great cardinal truths too often
forgotten, the bartarlsm ard the slavery in
which because of might right went under and
stayed under for centuries; while we may be
very lndulgent to the errors and even be willing
to forgive in some measure the crimes of the
past, we hold aloft the banner upon which is
inscribed this truth that ever and always in the
past, the present and the future, the earth and
the fulness thereof were given by God, and
therefore should belong to all the children of
God"
DR.. McGlynn then explained the theory of
1'Dd values, aud the process by which they have
been made valuable. by the social habits of man,
the tendency of the human family to get to-
gether. to live in cities, and TO be shoulder TO
shoulder in life. He then touched upon the
hypothetical question of division of the land
into equal bits for each person, argument
that some people put forth as contradicting the
truth of the land theory. This was not the in
tent of the doctrine of the new crusade; it
not to divide New York Cincinnati up into
bits and distribute each Dit to it's owner, and in
illustration of this the Doctor presented the fol-
| lowing practical simile
Suppose that all of this respected audience
| were joint owners of painting of Raphael or of
| an enormously valued race horse, worth about
| $4,000 we will say and that picture of Raphael
would easily be worth perhaps three or four hun
| dred thousand dollars. Now, wouldn't this re-
| spected audience be very foolish audience if it
should unanimously agree to divide that valu-
| able painting of Raphael into about five thou
sand pieces and give every man. woman and
| child partl What would be the value, we
would like to know, of that wonderful race horse
if we should cut him up into about five thousand
pieces and give to every man, woman and child
of this respected audience a bitl Why, even if
we were hppophaeii, which means horse eaters,
| l don't think we would find much value in that
little bit of race horse.
| Don't you see, can put that race horse to
| some better use than cutting him into FIVE thou
sand pieces. Howl By saying: Now, which
of this respected audience is horse fancierl
/ How many of you have very long purses-say
! 500, 600 that you don't know what to do WITH
Suppose we put that race horse upon the plat
form at auction and knock him off to the highest
bidder. and suppose that horse is sold Cor
5000 or 500 600, and then that is distributed
to all the members. don't you think that would
be more respectable proceeding? | do, and
am sure that your silence gives consent and you
agree with me.
That is what we mean by taxing and appro
priatng the rental value. We would simply tax
all these bounties of nature, and where there is
q scramble for them would tax them to the
full rental value In community, where
the people are few the land is comparatively I'M
yielding; there is such thing as rent; there is
an absence of rent; the land is pretty equally
distributed: there is choice; il would be a
senseless thing for men TO quarrel about II
there is land enough for all. What is the law Of
renta 1t is where there is scramble compe
tition on the part of two more or a dozen Of
individuals for larger portion of the common
beuntes for portion of land that is nearer
river, that is next to the junction of two grea
rivers, that is near to great city, for corner
lo.-say at the corner of Broadway and Wal